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Ivanovo region in Russia boasted record harvests for the past 2020

Russia
Published Jan 8, 2021

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The region has summed up the results of the crop production industry for 2020. As the director of the department of agriculture and food of the Ivanovo region Denis Cherkesov emphasized, thanks to the professional work of farmers, the highest grain harvest in 19 years was collected, an absolute record for the yield of 24.3 centners per hectare in barn weight was achieved. The previous record was in 2015 - 22.6 centners per hectare

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In the Ivanovo region, the gross grain harvest in 2020 amounted to 149 thousand tons, which is 28% higher than in 2019; harvested vegetables of open and closed ground - 15.4 thousand tons, or 9.2% more than in 2019. A record volume of feed for the last 10 years has been procured - 33 centners of feed units per standard head of livestock, which is almost a third more than the previous figure. In 2020, the sowing of winter crops on farms increased by 2 thousand hectares, or by 10%. In 2018, in the Ivanovo region, crops of fiber flax were restored on an area of 428 hectares. In three years, they have increased to 2.2 thousand hectares. This allowed the region in 2020 to take first place in Russia in terms of plantings of industrial hemp - 1.9 thousand hectares. A tangible positive result is in the production of berries. In 2020, new areas of strawberry - 1 hectare, gooseberry - 0.4 hectare, red currant - 0.3 hectare, honeysuckle - 1.8 hectares were introduced. We started laying an ...
Source: Agroxxi
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